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Janus

by Gabriel Holmann

Simple text editor

Sandboxed Verified creator GPL-3.0-only v0.9.8
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Screenshot 1 of Janus

About

Janus is a simple, native linux text editor. Supports UTF-8 and binary data through its fallback binary editing mode. Spiritual successor to leafpad. Intended to be as small and efficient as possible, trading features for a smaller impact on cpu.

Features include:

  • Undo/redo
  • Similar keybinds to other text editors (e.g. leafpad)
  • Spanish/French/German Translations
  • Printing capabilities
  • Optional syntax highlighting
  • Fallback binary editing
  • GVFS connectivity

Permissions

Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.

  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.